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Are you well read? According to The Telegraph there are 100 books you should read before you die. Get a copy of the list from the library and count how many you have already read, then hand in your name and total to the library. Each time you finish another book on the list your total will be updated. We will have a running total up on our TV display.

100 books you should read before you die

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

The Bible

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwel

His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

Complete Works of Shakespeare

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

Emma – Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery

Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Dune – Fran Herbert

Cold Comfort Farm – Sheila Gibbons

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Dracula – Bram Stoker

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Inferno – Dante

Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

Germinal – Emile Zola

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Possession – A.S. Byatt

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Balance – Rohinton Mistry

Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

Watership Down – Richard Adams

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Lost Horizon – James Hilton

Any of Mark Twain's Adventures - Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer

99 movies you should see before you die

12 Angry Men (1957)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The 400 Blows (1959)

8 ½ (1963)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

The African Queen (1952)

Alien (1979)

All About Eve (1950)

Annie Hall (1977)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Battle of Algiers (1967)

The Bicycle Thief (1948)

Blade Runner (1982)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Blow Up (1966)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Breathless (1960)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Casablanca (1942)

Chinatown (1974)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Die Hard (1988)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Duck Soup (1933)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

The Exorcist (1973)

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

The French Connection (1971)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Goldfinger (1964)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

Goodfellas (1990)

The Graduate (1967)

Grand Illusion (1938)

Groundhog Day (1993)

In the Mood For Love (2001)

It Happened One Night (1934)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Jaws (1975)

King Kong (1933)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)

M (1931)

M*A*S*H (1970)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Matrix (1999)

Modern Times (1936)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Network (1976)

Nosferatu (1922)

On the Waterfront (1954)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Paths of Glory (1958)

Princess Mononoke (1999)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Raging Bull (1980)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

Rashomon (1951)

Rear Window (1954)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Rocky (1976)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Schindler's List (1993)

Seven Samurai (1954)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Sound of Music (1965)

Star Wars (1977)

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Third Man (1949)

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Titanic (1997)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Toy Story (1995)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Vertigo (1958)

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Wild Strawberries (1957)

Wings of Desire (1988)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

The World of Apu (1959)

100 songs you should hear before you die

"You Make Me Wanna…" - Usher

"We Are Young" - fun. feat. Janelle Monae

"Best of My Love" - Emotions

"One More Night" - Maroon 5

"Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" - B.J. Thomas

"I'll Be Missing You" - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112

"Hurts So Good" - John Cougar

"Killing Me Softly With His Song" - Roberta Flack

"Are You Lonesome To-Night?" - Elvis Presley

"Waiting for a Girl Like You" - Foreigner

"Family Affair" Mary J. Blige

"I Swear" - All-4-One

"Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor

"All Night Long (All Night)" - Lionel Richie

"My Sharona" - The Knack

"Say You, Say Me" - Lionel Richie

"Play That Funky Music" - Wild Cherry

"You're So Vain" - Carly Simon

"Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson

"Abracadabra" - The Steve Miller Band

"Gangsta's Paradise" - Coolio feat. L.V.

"Hot Stuff" - Donna Summer

"You're Still the One" - Shania Twain

Hot 100 Peak: No. 2 (1998)

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye

"Dilemma" - Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland

"Just the Way You Are" - Bruno Mars

"Sugar, Sugar" - The Archies

"Upside Down" - Diana Ross

"That's What Friends Are For" - Dionne and Friends

"Rush Rush" - Paula Abdul

"Ebony and Ivory" - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

"Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera

"Whoomp! (There It Is)" - Tag Team

"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" - the 5th Dimension

"I Love Rock 'n Roll" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

"Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" - Stevie B

"The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy & Monica

"(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon

"Centerfold" - J. Geils Band

"The Sign" - Ace of Base

"Apologize" - Timbaland feat. OneRepublic

"Gold Digger" - Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx

"I'm a Believer" - The Monkees

"Tik Tok" - Ke$ha

"Lady" - Kenny Rogers

"Stayin' Alive" - Bee Gees

"Let Me Love You" - Mario

"Call Me" - Blondie

"Boom Boom Pow" - The Black Eyed Peas

"End of the Road" - Boyz II Men

"I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston

"No One" - Alicia Keys

"Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" - Elton John